Suitability assessment for selecting new sites for installing water service centres within English Bazar Municipality, Malda, West Bengal

Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 167-178

  Ziaul, Sk ^a   Pal, Swades ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOUR BANGA   (India)

Author keywords

Demand supply ratio; GIS analysis; Knowledge based weighting; Objective weighting; Suitability analysis; Water service centre; Weighted linear combination

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006992252     PISSN: 20693419     EISSN: 22482199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19188/07JSSP022016     Document Type: Article

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